undermining in English
The lighthouse stands on a plinth of rock undermined by caves, perhaps once used by smugglers.
Use "undermining" in a sentence
1. He's been undermining this station for too long.
2. Undermining marital trust, intimacy, and love. —Proverbs 2:12-17.
3. Maybe foolish is the Queen endlessly undermining your King's authority.
4. But undermining or destroying someone’s self-respect is a two-edged sword.
5. The fears always have to do with undermining male solidarity and dominance.
6. Poor financial accountability and absence of payroll reform risk undermining current achievements.
7. But are human weaknesses the sole reason for the ‘undermining of civilization’ today?
8. His death was attributed, in part, to undermining the Kim family personality cult.
9. Nothing will boob - trap your success more quickly than undermining your self - esteem .
10. Hitler, without understanding it or desiring it, is shaking and undermining the capitalist system ...
11. Rural Banditry by all accounts is undermining security, peace, and development in Nigeria’s northwest
12. And all the men with Joʹab were undermining the wall to knock it down.
13. You're aware that Abnegation is undermining... the faction system and breaking laws... harboring Divergents?
14. There are other processes which are undermining women's access to the social insurance system.
15. Synonyms for Countermine include counterplot, sabotage, disruption, interference, interruption, obstruction, destruction, subversion, undermining and conspiracy
16. 13 Some were less overtly overbearing, but no less effective in undermining their colleagues' confidence.
17. But make no mistake, we will not accept any undermining of the quality of EU products.
18. But “got-Aways” are surging, and undermining administration claims that the border is under control
19. We should be wary of discounting sinful behavior by undermining or dismissing God’s authorship of His commandments.
20. The absence of such a framework risks undermining the coordination and effectiveness of current and future projects.
21. The undermining of self-esteem may lead to assumptions about the reactions of others that are unjustified.
22. But the European debt crisis is undermining two, near - canonical assumptions that have come to underpin markets.
23. Belonging, support, and trust are interconnected and mutually reinforcing—improving or undermining one affects the others
24. Clearly, orthodox ministerial responsibility could not be extended to them without undermining the arm's length principle.
25. To accept such a proposition would amount to undermining one of the foundations of the residence directives.
26. Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
27. By Blunting that effect it’s probably undermining the motivation to quit and the ease of people quitting.
28. This crisis is undermining people’s ability to earn a living and enjoy freedom to the fullest extent.
29. concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
30. Allende and his opponents in Congress repeatedly accused each other of undermining the Chilean Constitution and acting undemocratically.
31. Local authorities and trade unions will need to respond to gratuitous fault finding and undermining of political leadership.
32. Charged with undermining the First French Republic, Louis XVI was separated from his family and tried in December.
33. ‘Aggressiveness can detract from self-development by undermining academic pursuits and creating socially alienating conditions.’ 1.1 Determination and forcefulness
34. More commonly, partial Avulsions or tears of the rectus-adductor aponeurosis are seen with fluid undermining the attachment site
35. Lax local authority policies and the undermining of policies of restraint on appeal, severely undermine processes of urban regeneration.
36. These attacks and the collateral damage have aggravated the situation and are undermining our efforts aimed at deradicalization.
37. Such titles and ornamentation can create the effect of bathos, or comic undermining of what you do achieve.
38. But Japanese thriftiness has gone so far that it is undermining the nation's ability to surmount a deepening economic slump.
39. When people flee, they deprive the organization of their expertise and experience, while at the same time undermining its reputation.
40. The division of labour not only makes capitalist investment more profitable it also involves the continual undermining of workers' skills.
41. This gives rise to discretionary decisions by adjudicators and administrators, undermining generality and discrediting the ideal of the rule of law.
42. There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination.
43. By far the most important aspect of this uneven development was the undermining of the economic dominance of the United States.
44. When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks, they built war-trains, undermining engines, mole bombs.
45. And key questions emerge here: how do we deliver a linear curriculum without undermining the cyclical nature of the learning experience?
46. 15 Undermining Faith. Christians are sometimes inclined to look back nostalgically at the medieval world as the great age of faith.
47. The opposition, meanwhile, attacked the Labour Party's more left-wing policies, and accused it of undermining free enterprise and hard work.
48. What Caiaphas actually meant was that Jesus should be killed to prevent Him from further undermining their positions of authority and influence.
49. 2 Disseminating for the purpose of undermining or weakening the Soviet regime slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system.
50. It was only on the sixth day that they succeeded in undermining a part of the northern wall in front of the Temple.”